NEW ORLEANS, LA – March 2,
2010 - SC10, the premier international conference on high-performance
computing, networking, storage and analysis, is now accepting submissions for
its technical program. The 23rd annual conference in the series, SC10 will take
place in New Orleans, Louisiana from November 13–19, 2010. Over 11,000
attendees from industry, academia and government are anticipated.

“The SC Conference
technical program has become internationally renowned as the preeminent forum for discovering,
debating and demonstrating innovative advances in high-performance computing,
networking, storage and analysis,” said Barry Hess, General Chair of SC10 and Deputy
CIO at Sandia National Labs.

Drawing
on expertise from the international HPC community, SC10 will build on over two
decades of success offering a broad spectrum of technical presentations and
discussions including rigorously peer-reviewed papers, panels, tutorials,
workshops and posters showcasing the latest findings from laboratories and
research institutions around the world.

This
year, the technical program encourages participants to focus on one of three thrust areas to be featured
prominently at the conference: climate simulation, heterogeneous computing and
data-intensive computing.

Climate simulation
spotlights the tremendous importance of research in global climate change, including
HPC-based climate simulation techniques which help scientists understand global
warming, climate change and other environmental processes.

SC10’s
other thrusts highlight important emerging HPC technologies. Heterogeneous
computing covers the technological and research advances in software that are
required for accelerator-based computing, which is now occurring on large-scale
machines and could propel supercomputing to the exascale level, where machines
are capable of running a million trillion calculations per second.

As scientists depend more and more on supercomputing in
their research, they are generating massive amounts of data that must be shared,
stored and analyzed by teams of remotely located collaborators. This global
trend underlines the importance of data-intensive computing, SC10s third main
thrust, highlighting research into innovative solutions for managing data
across distributed high-performance computing systems, especially hardware and
software requirements for effective data transfer.

“Each year we build on the
strength of the SC conference programs before and our horizons continue to
expand,” said Ricky Kendall, SC10 Technical Program Chair and Group Leader,
Scientific Computing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “This year we’ll focus
on the growing field of climate simulation, which seems especially appropriate
for our venue in New Orleans. And as more scientific disciplines - like climate
research - rely on HPC technologies to enable their research and
collaborations, emerging innovations in heterogeneous computing and data
intensive computing will be critical components to achieving new scientific
breakthroughs.”

DEADLINES:

Submissions for most
areas of the SC10 technical program will be accepted beginning March 1.
Technical Paper abstracts and ACM Gordon Bell Prize abstracts are due April 2.
Final full Technical Papers as well as submissions for Tutorials and the ACM Gordon
Bell Prize are due April 5.

Other immediate
submissions deadlines include: Workshops, which are due
April 15, 2010; the Student Cluster Competition, which are due by April 16,
2010; as well as Panel submissions, which are due April 26, 2010.

SC10, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and ACM (Association for
Computing Machinery) offers a complete technical education program and
exhibition to showcase the many ways high performance computing, networking,
storage and analysis lead to advances in scientific discovery, research,
education and commerce. This premier international conference includes a
globally attended technical program, workshops, tutorials, a world class
exhibit area, demonstrations and opportunities for hands-on learning. For more
information on SC10, please visit http://sc10.supercomputing.org

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Submissions Now Being Accepted for the SC10 Technical Program, Lauren Rotman, 03/02/2010